an 11 Dimensional political test

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Most of these were just wild ass guesses. Generally gave high numbers to stuff I like, and lower numbers to things I don't care for. Lots of vagueness and ambiguity, though...

3, 8, 5, 0, 2, 7, 9, 2, 0, 0, 7

Can you also explain what you mean by "Civil society"?

the non-governmental institutions of a culture museums, charities, boy scouts, foundations, universities, opera, ballet,
NGOs, the elks and rotary clubs etc.

Oh alright not what I expected at all lol. I'll edit my post accordingly...

It would make some difference in my answering if I thought the question did not mean "what is good in a society" but "what is it good for a society to do?"

depends on how you fall on the ends and means question.

So far as I can manage without leaving this continuum minimally political, minimally social, minimally connected.

The difficulty i have with this one is that I'd like to think of an ideal society as being full of an idealized version of myself, of course, but i have to consider that any theoretically possible society, in order to be livable for an overwhelming majority of it's members, has to accommodate those who i would class as uneducated rabble, or as a friend of mine puts it, homo simians.

I'm not entirely sure what is meant by civil society so i will assume for the purposes of this post that JuniorVarsity is referring to it as a social institution.

And i'd like someone to point out which market is or ever was free.

So if we're looking at this from a perspective of what is required for, lets say, a statistically representative cross-section of americans, I'd say something like this:

7,9,8,4,4,6,10,3,2,6

I'd have ranked religion lower if i thought morons could live without it. Not that I'm saying that all religious people are morons or that all morons are religious, but some people, due to circumstance of not being at all bright, have very difficult lives in which they will never get ahead, and they may as well have a fairy tale to believe in.

Edit: Lets put it this way. Religion is a crutch, and i would never deny a crutch to a man with a broken leg.

this will be open till friday

It's well past friday.

I know but some people have ten answers

Any progress yet?

Its kinda dead in the water I have lists of ten for some people 11 for others
and no real system to decide which number goes to what answer.
If people would check their answers I can continue.

Religion 0
Family 7
The Government 7
The Military 10
The Police 6
Civil society 8
Education 10
Free-markets 9
National Identity 1
Homogeneity 1
Social Spending 5

if everyone checks and posts fixed it I think I can get it moving

Religion: 1
Family: 10
The Government: 6
The Military: 6
The Police : 6
Civil society: 6
Education: 10
Free-markets: 5
National Identity: 2
Homogeneity: 2
Social Spending: 4

1, 10, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10, 5, 2, 2, 4